Category Archives: HPC News

The 40th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 List of the world’s top supercomputers was released yesterday (Nov. 12, 2012). Titan, a Cray XK7 system installed at Oak Ridge, achieved 17.59 Petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark. … Continue reading →

Dell announced the PowerEdge C8000 Series, the industry’s first 4U shared infrastructure solution to allow the mixing and matching of compute, GPU/coprocessors and storage sleds in one chassis. Ideally suited for workloads that require high performance per watt and flexibility … Continue reading →

HGST, formerly Hitachi Global Technologies, has announced plans to release a helium filled hard disk drive (HDD) in 2013. Hard drives traditionally run on air, but HGST claims that using helium, which is seven times less dense than air, will … Continue reading →

Intel researchers have published the results of a performance comparison between their latest quad-core Core i7 processor and a two-year-old Nvidia graphics card, and found that the Intel processor can’t match the graphics chip’s parallel processing performance. On average, the … Continue reading →

Researchers at Harvard and Microsoft have authored a paper that seeks to prove that a small, power-efficient core like the Intel Atom chip can be better suited for search. The paper compares the performance, reliability, and cost of ownership of … Continue reading →